Reports to: Principal or Designee Location: Centralia Middle School

Bargaining Unit: CEA FLSA Status: Exempt

Job Summary:

The primary role of the middle school multilingual teacher is to develop students’ listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills that are fundamental to academic success. The ML teacher will work directly with students to develop both conversational and academic language across curricular areas. The ML teacher works with other district and school staff to ensure that students are progressing towards higher and higher levels of English proficiency and demonstrating academic success. The ML teacher will be responsible for documenting student progress, providing activities through which students develop language skills, and ensure a safe learning environment. The ML teacher will provide feedback to students, parents, and school administrators regarding the students’ progress in language proficiency, meeting requirements, and meeting proficiency goals, etc.

Required Qualifications:

• Possession of a valid Washington State Teaching Certificate with ELL/Multilingual endorsement

• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, possess awareness (for self and others), listen actively, be patient, incorporate humor/lightheartedness into work, be empathic, possess a growth mindset, and be customer-service oriented

• Demonstrated organizational skills and flexibility to respond to changing student needs

• Ability to maintain confidentiality, work independently and in a team setting, and effectively problem-solve

• Ability to establish relationships with students, parents, and the community

• Proven ability to successfully work with students and adults

• Demonstrated ability to maintain a positive attitude

• Ability to support the District’s vision, mission, goals, and Culture Code including the belief that all students can succeed

• Ability to uphold board policies and follow administrative procedures

• Ability to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodations

• Bachelors degree in the field of education.

• Working knowledge of second language acquisition, bilingualism, literacy development, and pedagogy.

• Working knowledge of cognitive and emotional/social child development

• Ability to schedule, train, coach, and supervise classified staff

• Ability to train and collaborate with staff to assimilate services into school-wide academic programs

• Ability to create, maintain, and report required program statistics for monitoring and compliance purposes

• Ability to establish relationships with students, staff, parents, and community

Preferred Qualifications:

• Additional endorsement areas

• Successful ELL teaching experience.

• Successful experience as a secondary school teacher

• A demonstrated ability to work well with people from a variety of backgrounds

• A demonstrated ability to motivate, discipline, and interact with students in a productive manner

• Knowledge of the state essential learnings and the ability to align curriculum and instruction to state standards

• Ability to speak and understand Spanish and pass a basic Spanish language assessment

• A demonstrated ability to problem-solve collaboratively and productively with other staff

Essential Functions:

• Instruct students in large and/or small groups

• Diagnose and design instructional programs for individuals and groups using available assessment tools

• Work collaboratively with building principals and the Program Director to design equitable service delivery for students

• Manage and train paraeducators as assigned

• Manage instructional technology

• Ensure school and district compliance with federal and state ML and assessment requirements:

• Monitor and reconcile student registration and records, including parent notification and reporting monthly counts

• Arrange for and administer placement testing and WIDA achievement testing

• Assist with state achievement testing, including designating accommodations and supports

• Provide student advocacy at schools and through outreach and collaboration with community groups and service providers

• Attend special education and retention referral meetings when they involve EL students

• Attend parent and community events (occasionally)

• Work collaboratively with Program Director, EL staff, and others to design, monitor, and evaluate English Learner Program

• Other duties as assigned

• Participates in faculty committees and the sponsorship of student activities

• Maintains professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the district and/or in self-selected professional growth activities

• Attends trainings and meetings as directed or appropriate

• Other duties as assigned

Salary: $65,869.57 - $130,582.74, depending on experience and qualifications

Work schedule: 1.0 FTE (187 days per school year)

Benefits: 12 Sick leave and 3 personal leave days; health benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-term disability insurance through SEBB; State retirement through DRS; other fringe benefits as allowed under the Centralia Education Association Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Application Procedures: Anyone interested in this position should apply through EdJobsNW with a letter of interest, a resume, and three professional references AND submit the letter of interest to Allison Hillstrom, Interim Principal at Centralia Middle School ahillstrom@centralia.wednet.edu Current employees of Centralia School District need only to send a letter of interest to Allison Hillstrom.

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